A New Breed of Guitar Hero

What happens when three electrical engineers and a computer engineer get bored with their PlayStation? They build a Guitar Hero playing robot, of course!

Behold, Slashbot!

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April 30, 2008 | Filed Under Computers and Networking, YouTube | 1 Comment

Saturday Linkage

Here’s some Saturday night linkage for you all!

10 Ways to Organize and Simplify Your Finances - The Digerati Life

Top Reasons People Don’t Budget - Gather Little by Little

How to Get Piles of Links, Subscribers, and Comments - Skelliewag

The Best Graphic Design Articles From 34 Top Design Blogs as Chosen by the Authors Themselves *gasping for air* - JustCreativeDesign

User Friendly is a Bonus - Bloggin’ Ads

Encrypt Anything: 50 Ways to Secure All Your Data Regardless of Medium - Bootstrapper

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April 26, 2008 | Filed Under Linkage | 2 Comments

Virgin Mobile: Update

Thanks to Virgin Mobile not offering you the option to take money from your already-paid balance and taking it instead out of your PayPal>bank, my account is showing that I am $109.00 overdrawn, which is not correct. The balance should be positive.

Did I mention how much I think Virgin Mobile sucks? Fortunately, the bank is still willing to help cancel the overdraft fees, but VM will never touch my PayPal account again.

For those that run businesses (especially online business), keep in mind that sometimes it’s more beneficial to offer options to your customers and provide quality service rather than to cause them to write mean, hateful, and generally venomous blog posts about you.

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under Rant | Leave a Comment

Is Squidoo a Viable Way to Make Money Online?

For those of you who have no idea what I have done, I decided to check into the Squidoo zoo and see what the buzz was all about. I know Squidoo has been around for a while now, but I’m slow. Really, my laptop is running Windows 98 (and it a Pentium 133), hence the attempts to make some extra dough.

My lens, How I Get Money to Burn, has been online for about 2 days. With only the 20 or so visitors, I have earned affiliates in a couple different programs (just a couple signing up for a few programs can make a difference). Of course, these programs aren’t designed to make anyone rich (except their founders), but the fact is that a little money CAN be made with them. The trick? Don’t focus on completing thousands of offers. Instead, get tons of affiliates and let them do the work for you. Lazy? Not really, because affiliate marketing, as I am learning, takes quite a bit of effort and critical thinking. But one way to give your marketing a kick in the pants is to start a Squidoo lens about whatever it is you are marketing. Naturally, people will find it, and eventually (if your page is motivational enough), you will start seeing some outclicks to your stuff.

Personally, I like the idea of being able to set up a free mini-site in a matter of minutes on a reliable host where you can make money, not only from what you are marketing to your viewers, but also through royalties based on what Squidoo earns via your lens.

Squidoo seems to be a very good way to help promote your affiliates and/or services, and is definitely a good tool to help boost your revenue.

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April 22, 2008 | Filed Under Services, marketing | 3 Comments